Houston company turns viral videos into apps

A Houston firm, contracted by a British company that manages viral videos, has created an iPhone app around the YouTube hit “Charlie bit my finger-again!” In the video, which has has more than 445 million views, Charlie bites his big brother Harry’s finger. The New York Times recently did a story about the video.

In the app, you can see the boys, make Harry go through his comments from the video, play three different minigames, and take a photo of you or your friends with Charlie biting your finger. There is also a sound board with all the sounds the two boys make, as well as links to the famous video. Harry will also repeat what you say, in a kid voice.

Houston-based zGames, a division of local tech company Softeq Development, is also working on an app around the “I don’t like you mommy” video, which has more than 97 million hits.

In that app, called Cookies Kid, users can feed the viral video star cookies and have him repeat everything the user says.